Example sentences of "one [modal v] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy Wilson , the DUP press officer , dissociated the party from Seawright 's remarks : ‘ The DUP has always made it crystal clear — as Protestants we believe in civil and religious liberty for all men , and no one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs . |
| 2 | Although AI believes in the indivisibility of human rights , the campaigning work of the organisation focuses on issues within a strictly defined mandate : No one should be imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their beliefs , or because of their colour , sex , ethnic origin or religion ; no one should be tortured , ill-treated or executed ; all political prisoners should receive prompt and fair trials . |
| 3 | Lord Rawdon felt no one should be arrested for owing less than £20 , as it was when George I came to the throne ; that a creditor should pay the debtor he had put in prison 4s 8d a week ; and the warden of The Fleet and the marshal of the King 's Bench Prison ( who made around £3,000 a year out of fees ) should be compensated if the rules were abolished which allowed them their fees . |
| 4 | Worse still , one might be swallowed for ever in the morass . |
| 5 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 6 | One might be forgiven for thinking that the bishops ’ letter had something to do with it and that Haughey was intent on constructing an alliance between those heeding the teaching of the hierarchy and the party faithful . |
| 7 | But one might be forgiven for doubting if this is the most likely cause of the toxic side-effects of direct drilling ! |
| 8 | Whereas in classical times , and in the periods of Dante and Milton , there was an accepted ideological structure of religious belief to be accepted , explored or questioned , one might be forgiven for enquiring whether any gods are present in The Prelude . |
| 9 | Looking at the state of tax law in the UK , one might be forgiven for concluding that the effect is extremely limited . |
| 10 | On reading many accounts of evolution one might be forgiven for thinking that its purpose was to produce us , the species Homo sapiens sapiens , in a rerun of the biblical account of creation with the agency of God replaced by the blind force of natural selection . |
| 11 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 12 | From reading such reports one might be forgiven for thinking that the football terraces ran deep with blood each Saturday and that fans of Manchester United , like Protestants in parts of rural Spain , really do have horns on their heads . |
| 13 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 14 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 15 | No one could be reached for comment at Babcock 's Gloucestershire headquarters . |
| 16 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 17 | Walking down the light and airy aisles of this superstore , one could be forgiven for mistaking the piles of Novell Netware for so many boxes of Monopoly piled high on the shelves . |
| 18 | In the first place , diplomatic and political history were regarded as the centre of the discipline — the transaction of government business from month to month and year to year so that , according to the progenitors of the new approach , one could be forgiven for thinking that the only Frenchmen who had lived were cabinet ministers . |
| 19 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 20 | Just occasionally , one could be forgiven for thinking that the dummy had overtaken the ventriloquist . |
| 21 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 22 | Indeed one could be forgiven for thinking only two teams has entered the tournament . |
| 23 | The government 's new arrangements for replacing the nice , simple Independent Living Fund are so complex that one could be forgiven for feeling a little bit confused . |
| 24 | A more versatile one could be obtained for about £10,000 and one with a comprehensive specification for about £20,000 . |
| 25 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 26 | One will be used for proofing small entries to ensure efficient turnaround . |
| 27 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right . |